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C-16 / 2013

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Goodman Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition to end the calendar year, review some of the most significant works produced in 2013 and not yet seen in Cape Town, unveil new chapters in some ongoing projects, and to look forward to exhibitions coming up in 2014.

The exhibition features work by some of South Africa’s most important artists covering the full spectrum of contemporary artistic practice, and also serves as a chance to introduce a Cape Town audience to some of the exciting young artists the gallery has begun working with over the past year.

The exhibition will feature a new flip-book film by William Kentridge titled Second-Hand Reading, with music by South African composer Neo Muyanga. In the film, which premiered to great acclaim in New York in September, the pages of a 1914 edition of Cassel’s Cyclopedia of Mechanics, marked by the artist with charcoal, chalk and pencil, are flipped at twelve pages per second to create a characteristic and remarkable animation.

Kudzanai Chiurai will show the film Moyo – as well as a new photographic print from the project – in which the artist gently engages with notions of memory, mourning and loss. Moyo is the third film in a series that includes Creation and Iyeza, which formed part of his exhibition at dOCUMENTA in 2012.

In a series of photographs titled SABC Minimal Candice Breitz explores the studios and stages behind the scenes at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, an institution that, despite its radical transformation over the past 20 years, remains indelibly marked by its own role in the country’s political and social history.

Gerald Machona anticipates his upcoming solo exhibition in Johannesburg with The Edelweiss, a delicate sculpture of Switzerland’s national flower, made with decommissioned currency and suspended under a glass dome, that speaks powerfully of the impact that seemingly abstract economic policies have on our daily lives.

Haroon Gunn-Salie’s Turn the Other Way, originally installed in a demolished house in District Six, asks viewers to consider their own role in the devastation of the neighborhood that began in the 1960s, and the ongoing conflicts over the land on which it once stood. In transposing the installation to a gallery space on the edge of the district the work’s message is changed and complicated further.

In Land of Black Gold IV, recently shown on the exhibition Kaboom! Comics in Art at the Museum fur Moderne Kunst in Bremen, Siemon Allen strategically cuts up, splices and erases original Tintin comic strips by Hergé to create a large single panel that raises questions about language, cultural perspective and the contingent nature of narrative.

The exhibition also includes large-scale sculptural work by Kendell Geers, Sigalit Landau, Stuart Bird and Walter Oltmann, new and recent photographic work by Mikhael Subotzky, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Alfredo Jaar, David Goldblatt and Sue Williamson, and paintings by Moshekwa Langa, Clive van den Berg and Vusi Beauchamp.

Exhibition opening Saturday 14 December at 10h00

Goodman Gallery Cape Town will remain open throughout the holiday season, except on public holidays. The gallery will also be open on Monday 23 December and Monday 30 December.

Siemon Allen

The Land of Black Gold IV, 2004

Printed paper with correction fluid, mounted on foam board panels

243.8 × 508 × 1 cm

David Goldblatt

Braamfontein from Newtown, Johannesburg. (4_8370), 2001

Digital Prints on 100% cotton rag paper

A0 or A0+

Edition of 6

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Kendell Geers

Rietveld Waiting for the Barbarians, 2012

Mild steel, razor mesh and concrete

150cm x 54 x 45 cm

Available

Writing on the Wall: AllFuckedUp 2012, 2012

Shattered Mirror, wood

300 x 150 x 50 cm

Broomberg & Chanarin

Strip Test 6, 2012

Print on fiber-based paper

188 x 85.5 cm

Edition of 5

Available

Gerald Machona

The Edelweiss, 2013

Various decommissioned currencies

54 x 14 x 14 cm

Brett Murray

Dissent, 2012

Painted metal, edition of 5

51 x 290 x 10 cm

Walter Oltmann

Infant, 2013

Aluminium wire

170 x 172cm

William Kentridge

Lekkerbreek, 2013

Linocut printed on 30 sheets of non-archival pages from Britannica World Language Dictionary, Edition of Funk and Wag...